R9 m370x

[Yixian]

Good surprise or bad surprise? How does it compare to the 950/960M everyone was predicting?

 

[yjchua95]

Good surprise or bad surprise? How does it compare to the 950/960M everyone was predicting?

Well they said it'd be 80% faster than the 750M. Which means it's pretty comparable to the Maxwell chips.

It was a nasty surprise for me, because AMD chips are known to be inefficient. I'm waiting for another Radeongate to happen on this one.

 

[radiohead14]

how's AMD's driver support nowadays? haven't owned a notebook w one in a while. i have a Razer Blade also with a 970m, and i get constant updates from Nvidia. actually just got the update for Witcher 3 support yesterday.

 

[dusk007]

They say 1.5 - 1.7 times (in other words 50-70% performance increase) on the Apple website in games. But who knows how they tested that. I doubt it was under windows with the newest drivers for both.
An 850M is 2 times a 750M.
A 950M or 960M is 2.2-2.5 times a 750m.

 

[yjchua95]

how's AMD's driver support nowadays? haven't owned a notebook w one in a while. i have a Razer Blade also with a 970m, and i get constant updates from Nvidia. actually just got the update for Witcher 3 support yesterday.

AMD's OS X drivers are like NVIDIA drivers for Windows, while NVIDIA drivers for OS X are like AMD drivers on Windows.

 

[brdeveloper]

AMD's OS X drivers are like NVIDIA drivers for Windows, while NVIDIA drivers for OS X are like AMD drivers on Windows.

I'm really impressed with the performance and compatibility with the "forced" installation of the latest nvidia webdrivers on my Late-2009 Macbook. I'm just experiencing some WebGL crashes when I first open Google Chrome, but don't know if it has something to do with video drivers.

 

[Nermal]

They say 1.5 - 1.7 times (in other words 50-70% performance increase) on the Apple website in games. But who knows how they tested that. I doubt it was under windows with the newest drivers for both.

It'll certainly be in OS X. There are some details in the footnote:

Testing conducted by Apple in April 2015 using preproduction 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7–based 15-inch MacBook Pro systems with AMD Radeon R9 M370X and 2GB of graphics memory, and shipping 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i7–based 15-inch MacBook Pro systems with NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M and 2GB of graphics memory, all configured with 16GB of RAM. Resolution used: 1440 by 900. Tomb Raider tested using the built-in benchmark, with anti-aliasing turned off and low graphics quality. Formula 1 2013 tested using the built-in benchmark, with 2x anti-aliasing and default graphics settings. Batman: Arkham City GOTY tested using the built-in benchmark, with 4x anti-aliasing and high quality setting.

 

[MacNerd1239]

It'll certainly be in OS X. There are some details in the footnote:

Those footnote details are important. I wonder what the actual full res performance differences are.